Chapter 5: The Tragedy of the Slums

Outside of the military zone is a desolate clearing, scattered on some food scraps indicating that there were people here not long ago, and two rectangular wooden boxes in the center of the clearing are planted with some unknown plants, which may be the only green in this desert city.

Looking further afield, there were a few people carrying boxes scattered under some haphazardly placed dilapidated tents, and although their clothes were not shabby, they were definitely weathered by wind and sand. On either side of the tent were large swaths of low, rudimentary houses, most of them with only one floor, arranged tightly and haphazardly on the gravel floor, many of which were already lacking bricks and tiles, and a few of them had collapsed in half.

Such a dilapidated scene, coupled with the fact that there are almost no people in the streets, if this is a ruin baptized by artillery fire, I am afraid that some people will believe it, and the Tisball on the ground and the Tisball underground are two completely different worlds.

Moving around casually, because the body made of metal is so heavy, it makes an unusually clear "click" sound when stepping on the gravel floor, probably because of the loud footsteps of my feet, or because of the Tisball on the ground, robots are very rare, and the occasional pedestrian passing by me will look at me with strange eyes.

The above-ground Tisball is not only pure poverty, but also a relatively prosperous area closer to the center, where most of these places are inhabited by foreign traders and some travelers who are not qualified to enter the underground world.

But although it is prosperous, it is only relatively speaking, this area is a concentration area of hotels, and there is a large market. During the day, there are few vendors and passers-by, and most of the shops are closed.

In this way, I came to a place on the ground where Tisbal was closer to the center and where there were relatively many people. Although most of the vendors are closed during the day, it doesn't stop you from looking for shops selling books and books, after all, this is also a city frequented by traveling merchants, so you might be able to find the rest of the notebook by trying your luck here.

"No, please, that's our family's last life-saving money! Please, don't snatch it! ”

I looked for a voice, and looked over, and at the mouth of an alley leading to the market, a scrawny man was kneeling beside another muscular man, tugging at the corner of his coat and pleading. And behind him, an equally scrawny woman holding a child, shivering as she hid aside.

"Fuck off! Lao Tzu won't rob you, Lao Tzu will drink the northwest wind! The sturdy man kicked the man kneeling on the ground in the abdomen, kicking him directly to the ground, holding his stomach for a long time and unable to get up.

Seeing this scene, I don't know if it was because of the character of my previous life, or other reasons, I subconsciously wanted to stop it, but I still forced myself not to move.

The man was kicked over, and the figure of the woman hiding behind him was revealed, and I have to say that although she was a little thin, her appearance was also good.

"Oh, you still have such a beauty hidden in your house, hehe." The stout man smiled wickedly, took the stolen coins into his clothes, walked to the woman's side in three or two steps, and lifted the woman up with one hand.

"Little baby, let's go play with my grandfather! Hehe......" said as the stout man reached out and touched the woman's body.

The woman struggled desperately, her eyes revealing unconcealable horror and despair, with her thin body, the struggle was probably in vain.

"Wow, wow, wow!" Probably frightened, the girl in the woman's arms cried loudly.

"I'm noisy, shut up!" The sturdy man impatiently snatched the child from the woman's hand, ignored the woman's pleas, and threw it aside.

The girl was thrown out, and there was a stone where she landed, and she was only a few years old, and she could not withstand such a collision, and her back fell on the hard stone, and she fainted with a miserable wail, and did not know whether she was alive or dead.

The urge to rush up was beating strongly in my soul, but I tried desperately to suppress it and not let my body move, because no one in this world was more important to me than my Cher.

At this moment, the man seemed to have eased up, and when he looked up and saw such a scene, his whole body trembled.

"I'll fight with you!" The man struggled to his feet in pain, picked up a stone from the ground next to him with red eyes, rushed desperately in front of the sturdy man, and smashed it hard at his head.

But it may have been affected by his previous injury, and this time, he didn't hit it, but just hit the arm of the sturdy man.

Feeling the pain, the sturdy man punched the emaciated man away, glanced at the smashed wound on his arm, and angrily walked up to the man who had been knocked to the ground.

"Looks like you're getting impatient!" The sturdy man said grimly, and then picked up a large stone from the ground next to him and smashed it hard at the thin man's face.

I don't know how many times I smashed it, until the blood was all over the ground, and the sturdy man threw down the blood-red stone in his hand, and walked towards the alley with the desperate woman in one hand.

No one stopped him, no one made a sound, as if such a thing had become commonplace, everyone was silent, doing what they were doing, even when the able-bodied man left, no one collected the body of the man who died tragically, and the passers-by hid in disgust as if they were afraid of the plague.

But I didn't move, though my soul kept shouting for me to go, even if it was too late, to at least see if the little girl was still alive. But I just forced myself not to think about it, and continued to look for clues to the notebook.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when I had such an idea, a sigh seemed to sound in my ears and from the bottom of my heart, but I searched around but didn't find the owner of this voice.

……

Time is fleeting, especially when you are looking for something, then time will pass faster. As the sun sets, the heat in the air is carried away by the breeze, and the people around the market gradually increase, and many of the vendors are ready to open, and I am going to meet up with Oude.

After a day of searching, I didn't find any useful clues, which is also expected, after all, a tattered notebook, only half of it, how can it be found so easily, and it's hard to say if it even exists. But even if it's just the slightest possibility, I'm going to look for it.

Passing through the crowd and following the way I came, I walked towards the military zone. I didn't walk fast, or I couldn't have walked fast unless I had a bulky body like this, and after about ten minutes of walking I saw the edge of Tisball on the ground, and as I walked out, the lights became scarcer and dimmer.

Out of Tisbor, there is a large open space, there are almost no pedestrians, only occasionally you can see some people carrying goods, because there are few people, so the movement is much smoother.

After walking for a long time, I came to the gate of the military zone again, and the two defenders saw a robot coming, and aimed their guns at me, and they did not look like the same people in the morning.

"Stop, or we'll shoot!"

I walked over to the light and stopped, took out the token that Oude had given me earlier from the storage space, and held it up to a position where they could see it.

After seeing the token and understanding that I was a mechanic's item, the two defenders hurriedly lowered their guns and reached out to open the gate for me to pass. There are several checkpoints in the military zone, and the last one that was forbidden to me was the one that was forbidden to pass, and the first few basically can be passed as long as you have Ode's identity token.

To make it easier for me to hold the token on my chest all the time, the body didn't get tired, and just like that, I didn't have much trouble getting to the final level.

"Look, it's J7!" Ouya's voice came from not far ahead, and then two familiar figures appeared in front of me, it was Oude and Ouya, from Oude's faint smile, I knew that his work must be very smooth today, and Ouya revealed a sense of excitement, I don't know why.

"It looks like your robot has returned, so I'll be out of company." An officer gave Ode a military salute and turned back to the military district.

"Odeod, let's go!" Ouya said, still tugging at Oude's clothes, and the excitement in his tone was difficult to hide.

"Okay, okay, I know, if you pick it again, your clothes will be torn." Oude smiled, and then said to me, "J7, come with us, Ouya wants to visit the market." ”

Speaking of which, when I was looking for notes during the day, I found that there were many stalls selling accessories and clothes, so I guess I wanted to check them out for these reasons.

So I followed Oude and the bouncing Oya towards the center of Tisbal on the ground again, and the anticipation in Oya's eyes increased as she got closer to the bazaar, until she noticed the crowd surrounding the intersection of the path next to the bazaar.

"Oude, is there something you're selling over there? Let's check it out! Ouya's big eyes blinked, and they were cute.

Originally, I came here to accompany Ouya for a walk, but of course Oude would not refuse, so he touched Ouya's head and walked over.

I could have guessed what was there when I saw it, and she must have felt terrible when she saw it, but even then I couldn't reach out to stop it, because that would make Ode realize that the intelligence of this body was different from what it should be, and it would interfere with my search for Cher!

Ouya pulled Ou De through the crowd, looking forward to the items sold here, the excitement in his eyes was completely frozen the moment he saw this scene in front of him, and in an instant he was filled with boundless fear and despair, his face turned pale as if he had faded, and tears flowed almost uncontrollably, and he was stunned in place.